The multimedia principle is the use of media and images, along with words, in a better more effective way to teach than word-heavy slides. Breaking the powerpoint into smaller categories makes it easier to communicate the information with your students. __Source of Definition__
Research finding: people learn better from words and pictures than from words alone (the Multimedia Principle).(13)
This slide show proves our point, instead of simply feeding kids text about historical events kids get to see a picture that they will remember and recall better. These pictures also help kids to remember the chronological order in which things happen because of instead of just trying to remember dates and what came first they have pictures and can think of the order of the pictures to remember what happened first. It's easier to remember the order of things when you have pictures to relate to the events. By giving kids more than just text you grab and maintain kids attention and allow information to be processed in more than one manner. By allowing for information to be processed in more than one way the information is more easily interpreted and remembered.
The Multimedia Principle
The multimedia principle is the use of media and images, along with words, in a better more effective way to teach than word-heavy slides. Breaking the powerpoint into smaller categories makes it easier to communicate the information with your students.
__Source of Definition__
Research finding: people learn better from words and pictures than from words
alone (the Multimedia Principle). (13)
This slide show proves our point, instead of simply feeding kids text about historical events kids get to see a picture that they will remember and recall better. These pictures also help kids to remember the chronological order in which things happen because of instead of just trying to remember dates and what came first they have pictures and can think of the order of the pictures to remember what happened first. It's easier to remember the order of things when you have pictures to relate to the events. By giving kids more than just text you grab and maintain kids attention and allow information to be processed in more than one manner. By allowing for information to be processed in more than one way the information is more easily interpreted and remembered.